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Cometbus 59 is Here
It’s new. It is here. There hasn’t been a new issue in a bit over two years. This one is novel-length. We also finally listed 58 online. When we got it there was a zine show in a couple days, then we just held it for the shop. Or maybe we were just lazy. Many
Read moreBrown Cuts Neighbors Two Heads Are Better Than Yours 30th Anniversary Reissue
Out today as a pay-what-you-want download on Bandcamp. There have been stranger Valentine’s day gifts. Rereleased in digital form today — in the only release since the original limited run cassette tape from 1990 — is Brown Cuts Neighbors’ second recording with the...
Read more2019 Year In Review
It has certainly been a tumultuous year here at Wow Cool. Not least of all because the physical “here” has changed. Sadly the Wow Cool Alternative Comics physical shop in Cupertino, California closed its doors after six great years. We also left the offices that we had been in for...
Read moreBrown Cuts Neighbors Beltsander Girls EP Re-Released
Beltsander Girls by Brown Cuts Neighbors The Brown Cuts Neighbors has a long and strange history from its founding in 1980 by the pre-double digit siblings Jason and Colleen Martin, through it’s transformation into a proper band in the late 80s—when James Kopta joined up with Jason...
Read moreGraphic Content – Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman on BBC 6Music
The British titans of graphic novel writing in our time will be mixing it up on the ones and twos for digital radio station BBC 6Music this month. Alan Moore will be sitting in for Iggy Pop on the Confidential show, Friday October 4; and, Neil Gaiman will be a guest on the Paperback Writers show...
Read moreJohn Holmstrom Ramones Exhibit Opening September 5th
John Holmstom is putting together his first solo art exhibition since 1981! “All The Stuff I Did With The Ramones” is on exhibit at The Great Frog/72 Orchard Gallery from September 5th to October 17th. The focus is on all the work he did with the Ramones over the years (as you might...
Read moreNew Short Film About Extinction Rebellion
Decades of inadequate political action have led to a climate and ecological emergency that poses an unprecedented existential threat to humanity and all life on Earth — “politics as usual” will not meet the challenge we face. This new film with an exclusive soundtrack from Massive Attack...
Read moreNew nickname: Rebel Live Set and T-Shirt Out Now
On Sunday August 18, Wow Cool house band nickname: Rebel—in the form of founding members Marc Arsenault and Michael Keegan—played their first show in eight years. We can’t believe it’s been that long either. California’s Capital City welcomed us back for an early afternoon set...
Read moreAlternative Comics’ Book Debuts at SPX Small Press Expo 2019
The exhibitor list is now live for SPX Small Press Expo 2019. Go meet Joel Orff and Robin Enrico at A2 – the Alternative Comics table! Joel will debut his new book Twice Shy. Robin will be hawking copies of the new collection of his classic mini comic series Life of Vice. Other Alternative...
Read morenickname: Rebel Live in Sacramento & New Mixtape
Wow Cool house band nickname: Rebel will be returning to live performance this Sunday after too long of a break. “The Norcal Noisefest Crew bring you the loudest breakfast in the valley… SACRAMENTO AUDIO WAFFLE 57, where we find our heroes eating delicious waffles and drinking...
Read moreNew Reads at the Wow Cool Shop
Recent posts on Wow Cool Katriona Chapman’s Follow Me In – Reviewed by Rob Clough You’ve Seen Love Death And Robots, Right? Editorial comment moment here. It was OK. About three episodes were pretty memorable. Yeah, I’d totally watch another season. Celebrate [St. Patrick’s Day] With...
Read moreYou’ve Seen Love Death And Robots, Right?
Sentient dairy products, werewolf soldiers, robots gone wild, garbage monsters, cyborg bounty hunters, alien spiders and blood-thirsty demons from hell – all converge in eighteen NSFW animated stories. Presented by Tim Miller (Deadpool, Terminator: Dark Fate) & David Fincher (Fight...
Read moreThe Stupid Pages 48 – Cannibals
Celebrate With The Real Irish Punk Rock Playlist
Get your green on! with our epic Apple Music playlist of Real Irish Punk Rock from Ireland (Northern and Republic of). All the classic bangers from the likes of Stiff Little Fingers, The Undertones, Virgin Prunes and many others are represented. Dig in to you corn beef and Guinness in style and...
Read moreThe Amazing Spider-Man Comic Strip Says Goodnight
Sunday March 17 2019, saw the last Sunday installment of the 42-year long run of the syndicated Marvel Comics’ Amazing Spider-Man comic strip. The last daily strip was published on Saturday, March 23. Creators Alex Saviuk and ghost writer Roy Thomas make cameo appearances in the first...
Read moreWarm Apparitions by Scientific Maps Out Now
Aaron Smith’s long-running post-Stars of Rock project Scientific Maps has dropped a new LP into the world today. Warm Apparitions is comprised of 13 new songs, and it’s on Seehurst Records. All songs written, performed and recorded by Aaron Smith. Recorded onto a broken laptop in...
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Recent posts on Wow Cool Good Omens Official Trailer Released Steven Cerio’s ABC Book – A Drug Primer The Stupid Pages The Stupid Pages 47 – The Walrus Zippy The Pinhead Read the last two weeks of strips – right. now! New Books, Comics, Zines & Video New Backlist Titles
Read moreSteven Cerio’s ABC Book – A Drug Primer
Steven Cerio’s ABC Book – A Drug Primer first appeared some two decades ago as a slim hardcover book from the late Gates of Heck Press. It took you on a trip from A for “Angel Dust” to Z for “Zoloft”. The satiric psychedelic tome went on to win a Firecracker...
Read moreGood Omens Official Trailer Released
With Armageddon just days away, the armies of Heaven and Hell are amassing and The Four Horsemen are ready to ride. Aziraphale, an angel, and Crowley, a demon, agree to join forces to find the missing Anti-Christ and to stop the war that will end everything. Based on the best-selling novel by...
Read moreThe Stupid Pages 47 – The Walrus
Drawn with a Palomino Blackwing 54 – The Exquisite Corpse pencil, generously donated to the cause by our friend Jim. Rejected idea sketches for this week’s cartoon along with many others, can be found on the AltComics Instagram.
Read moreNew on Wow Cool
In like a lion! The big news this week is that we have added Zippy the Pinhead by Bill Griffith to the site. Read it everyday in full color. Strips are archived for two weeks. We also have many new reviews, features & new books, comics and zines. Recent posts on Wow Cool Preorder Dylan...
Read moreLinks Keep Tumbling Down
It’s been a couple of months since the last installment of the ‘something good to read on a Sunday’ linkdown bonanza. We’ll see how far we can get down the accumulated backlog of goodness assembled in that interim. How far down the rabbit hole can you go? Art: A Hundred...
Read moreThe Stupid Pages 46: Crazy Niche Asians
I’m not actually sure what Crazy Rich Asians is, but this seemed like an obvious riff on it. I wrote down dozens of ridiculous possible hobbies for the caption including ‘Bolivian Basket Weaving’ and ‘Obscure Tartan Patterns’ before settling on these two, inspired...
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